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Dodgeball posted:Hell-oooo? New boots! Guh! Kat's hair goes up now! Annie is going to have to do better than that!  Unconventional Oven, you are the bizniss. That's going in the OP.
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Because we do need more variation in non-coyote, non-gillitie avatars, and because I am a sperglord, I've been going through the comic from the start and trying to crop at least one avatar from each page. All are up for grabs, as far as I know. Chapter One:                     Chapter Two:               And one animated gif because I love you guys/this comic/robox. 
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To be fair, a wood nymph would probably be less 'Pfft, total combustion?' and more 'OH GOD MY BABIES'.
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HydroChocobo posted:I kinda wanna buy an avatar of Kat's "I sure do love popular band and also popular movie." "Real slick, Donlan." "Let me guess what your primary function is."
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Something for the weekend! I've added another three chapters' worth of material to the Gunnerkrigg Court (No) Spare Avatars Cupboard, which can now be found here in a handy dandy imgur gallery. Some highlights, and a Reynard parade:                         All free to a good home. 
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^^ Ahhh, beaten. For the uninitiated, Princess Mononoke is an environmentalist fable. It pits the animal gods of the forest and the titular feral girl against a (surprisingly not straw-manned) industrially expanding human settlement.  Moro, pictured here, is the wolf god and San/Mononoke's adoptive mother. I won't spoil anything, but she's a very badass figure in the film. Honestly, Princess Mononoke is a very safe recommendation for anyone who enjoys the major themes of Gunnerkrigg Court. And anyone else. But I don't know why anyone else would be in this thread. Kismet fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Apr 21, 2011 |
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I don't understand, we packed loads of them in lunchboxbot. 
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Pretty sure that's caused by independent sellers running bots that aggregate supply/price data on their stock from various places online and generate high-profit listings. It works fine as long as the item's had a large enough print run to make second-hand prices match demand, but for smaller runs there's so little data that the figures get really out of whack. You see it a hell of a lot on Amazon, and the giveaway is always when there are two or more generic sellers offering the same ludicrous price with 0.01c difference where they automatically undercut each other.
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The best part of owning a big backrest or pillow is tying it on a leash and using it as a dog. Try it next time you're near a big backrest or pillow! 
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Zoolooman posted:Dragon's Lair is one of the least offensive comic book shops on the planet. This says a lot about Dragon's Lair, and it says a lot about how poor comic book shops can be. My local comic book shop is run by a sleepy stoner who plays WoW all afternoon and likes to talk about books. It's down a little medieval side-lane and being the UK there are absolutely no concessions made to try and persuade customers to hang around or socialise, so it always has that quiet library feeling. It also has grilled windows and no sign, so the only people who ever go there are either lost tourists or locals inducted by comic-reading friends. I'd been dropping in there for something like six years before I even learned it had a name.  I have no idea how it survives.
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Fangz posted:I'm wondering if Tom is missing a layer in panel 3. It's just a focus shift onto Annie. The previous strip does the same thing. I think it's a neat effect!
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Endings? Resolution? What are you nerds talking about, we're just about to start a new school year here. There's larnin' to do, cupboards to explore and mysteries to solve.  Annie and Kat are friends forever, and the only thing going down any time soon is a minotaur's foot on a pint sized robot.
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Phy posted:Which would explain why you never see Tony Stark chilling with Doctor Strange despite them being Moustache Bros Give them 10-15 years, Stark will be renting his manufacturing wing out to Strange to pay off the mortgage.
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Can we run a kickstarter campaign to buy Tom a Nice Cup of Tea? I don't know how the comforting beverage market is down south, but I estimate that £1.20 would be a realistic goal. If we made it up to £1.70 maybe he could get a biscuit too! Realtalk: I suspect your discomfort with the writing of that chapter communicated to the audience, plain and simple. The robots and the shady history of the court have both been popular/interesting focuses for the plot before, and we were ready for a bit of Kat time after Annie's summer, so it's not like it was intrinsically dull subject matter. Funny that you feel robot chapters limit visual interest, too, because a lot of my favourite imagery from the comic comes from the way you work with the tension between the court's very human elements and its industrial appearance. Just got to try not to let your anxieties have a bigger say than your imagination in the way your story comes out. [/amateur opinion]
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Tea-san posted:Well I didn't go to every school in the UK, but I did go to three different ones and they all worked the same. And everyone I've talked to had a similar structure in the shools they went to. I'd be interested in knowing which kinds of schools didn't organise their students into different groups. There's a typo on that page, too, in the last instance of 'boarding school' at the end. I only remembered at this moment that we did actually have a house structure at my high school (in Scotland). It didn't affect anything except the occasional sports day and our class designations, as far as I remember, and I always assumed it was just a token effort to make the place look like less of a scumhole.  Warriston house.
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Tom just twooted this: http://www.bookoftheyearawards.com/winners/2010/category/graphic-novel/
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Slime posted:He's crabby sure, but he's also the kind of guy who'd help you out if you're in a pinch. Nobody could call him shellfish.
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WeaponBoy posted:What ever happened to the Occident anyway? Oh, it was terrible - and completely unintentional.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Yeah, it's actually been bugging me a little bit how much Annie looks like Surma in certain panels more recently. I know it's probably really tough to get that whole gradual growing thing, but she's 14 (right?) and is looking really similar to her mother already. Surma always looked pretty youthful, and remember a lot of what we've seen of her has been in flashback form - when she'd have been only a little older than Annie is now. Besides that, women often reach physical adulthood earlier than men. I was being regularly mistaken for my mother by her family / old college friends by the time I was 16, much to my irritation at the time.
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Geekner posted:We should have a rule against linking to pages more than a chapter ago. No, I didn't need that hour, nope. Also, a rule against fun. No fun here. Your avatar renders your suggestion terrible. Instead, all mentions of past events must now be accompanied by a a page link and tempting endorsement. e.g. The chapter where Annie and Kat wander into a
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Would you be willing to share the pattern, for any needle enthusiasts in the thread? He looks a little more complicated than I've made before, but I can't think of a better excuse for a challenge.
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To even things out, allow me to point out to everyone reading this thread that the official Gunnerkrigg merch is also rad as all hell.  Sadly lacking in any kind of Mort presence, though. 
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Requisite link to improve hours of your time.
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For anybody who missed it on Twitter, Tom is back on Formspring, and it seems to be running on marginally less insanity for the time being. Reynard body-swapping questions are still verboten, as are attempts to wring out plot spoilers. I found this question and response pretty interesting: quote:This isn't just a complement, but you draw really well, you write a good story and you're very dedicated to your work. Do you think you could start one of those Kickstarter things to get a years income so you can do this full time? First of all, I've seen tacky projects on Kickstarter and oh boy this would not even come close. But beyond that, it's an interesting idea. I wonder if there's a way Tom could use the 'rewards' element of Kickstarter to set up the equivalent of a very well paying run of sales and commissions and achieve the same result. I know I wouldn't mind paying well over the odds for - say - a badge and a thank you note, if the goal was helping to launch Gunnerkrigg to the next level.
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Macaluso posted:Anyone have any idea what that finger bending thing they are doing in the newest page is? You mean you don't know? Wow. Somebody never got invited to many high school parties. 
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If you have to ask, you'll never know. E: You know what, I apologise. That's unhelpful. Here are some tutorials, so we can all enjoy this historic pastime:  
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Osmosisch posted:I have no idea what's up with that finger stuff either. Is it an UK thing? No, but winding people up certainly is. 
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That would be great, I've been wondering when we'll get to hear Candy's origin story.
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Found this on my laptop today, which I must have done around the first chapter of the new year, so I finished colouring it up.
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Yeah, sneaking out was 99% of the point. And then everyone would turn up and hang out semi-awkwardly as it dawned on us that we didn't really know what the other 1% was. Sometimes it was booze or drugs, sometimes really bad under-18s nightclubs. Usually it was just sitting somewhere and talking inconsequentially. The only difference is that I guess we used to hang out in parks and at bus stops, rather than hotel lounges or wherever these strangely classy teens are.
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And it's reciprocal, there have been hints for a while. This is just the first recent chapter to focus on developing relationships.   
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"This chapter is so boring, oh god, they're just talking. I'm not interested in teen romance, ugh, it's so predictable and Jack is just dull, why would we- MINOR HICCUP, INTEREST SOARING, WILD THEORIES GO GO GO."1stGear posted:I don't know what's weirder, analyzing a teenage romance or doing it while the comic creator is in the thread.
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True story: I was sitting drawing in my front room a couple of weeks ago when my sister came in, stopped dead and gave me the biggest  face. Apparently while I'd been sitting there, a little spider had dropped down and started building a web between my head and the chair, and was merrily chilling in my hair. My first thought was this comic and the little spider in Tom's self portrait.
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Annie drew that flattering and entirely unbiased portrait.
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I for one resent the implication that gay people attract others by infecting them with mind spiders. It is a cheap and archaic stereotype that the LGBT community has worked hard to shake off.
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